What do you do when you have some down time waiting 3-hours on the tarmac for the 192 planes in front of you to take off?
When you’re members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, you whip out your instrument you brought on board with you (because it’s probably worth more than your house) and you give a little concert!
Check it out!
We don’t know the effects of social media on our kids.
As we’ve seen it arrive and increase, the next generations will always known it to exist.
This infographic explores some of the numbers surrounding our children and social media:
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I love this concept.
Taking parables told by Jesus and re-telling them as modern day stories with the art of filmmaking.
That’s exactly what the American Bible Society is aiming to do with this film project that tells the story of The Prodigal Son:
As you can clearly see in the screenshot above, Echo is a Church conference for artists, geeks, and storytellers. Each year they explore creativity in leadership, visuals, communications, branding, technology, and worship.
If this years conference–Echo Conference 2013, July 24-26 in Dallas, TX–is as awesome as their website and promotional video, you’re going to be in for a real treat!
I truly enjoy music mashups; they are the definition of creativity.
Check out this one by Go Home Productions that reunites some of The Beatles by melding together John Lennon’s Imagine instrumental underneath Paul McCartney & Wings’ Band on the Run vocals to create an eerily cool song–check out this cool Beatles mashup:
I used to work at a video game store.
When customers were trying to decide which system to purchase, this is what I would tell them:
“Focus on the game library.”
I think the same can be said for smartphones and tablets. There are many apps that can be used on multiple devices–sometimes better and sometimes worse–but what can really separate the different OS’ are the exclusive apps. If you find that your favorite apps can only be found on a particular platform, that’s the direction you should probably go.
Take a look at how the number of apps compare from app store to app store:
Google+ is quickly becoming one of my favorite social networks and part of it is because of the ability to share photos with specific groups of people. Recently, I took photos at my daughters kindergarten graduation, but I didn’t want to post the photos publicly and I didn’t want to put them on my Dropbox. I decided to post them on Gooogle+ and share with all of the parents.
Here’s how I did it:
A lot of things have been said about how the new Pope Francis has done things in a different way. This video is another example of this.
Recently thousands of Jesuit school children had a chance to meet and see the Pope and actually ask spontaneous questions!
What’s really striking is the honesty – of both the children and the Pope. Continue Reading…
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